by Mary-Erin Casale | Feb 22, 2019 | Maine Legislature, Women's Issues
AUGUSTA – Today the Trump Administration formally issued a domestic “gag rule” designed to target Title X funding which ensures more than four million low-income Americans can access essential reproductive health care. Speaker of the House Sara Gideon released...
by Mary-Erin Casale | Jul 9, 2018 | Maine Legislature, Women's Issues
Veto of LD 1788 Overridden by House, Senate AUGUSTA – Members of the Maine House and Senate overrode a veto of LD 1788: An Act To Enhance Safety for Victims of Sexual Assault and Stalking and To Amend the Laws Governing Harassment and Protection from Abuse. The...
by Mary-Erin Casale | Apr 10, 2018 | Women's Issues
AUGUSTA – Tuesday, April 10, 2018, marks Equal Pay Day. This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Because women earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer for the same amount of pay. The...
by Mary-Erin Casale | Feb 6, 2018 | Maine Legislature, Women's Issues
AUGUSTA – A Joint Order to strengthen harassment prevention training at the State House received widespread support in the Maine House today. All but 24 House Republicans voted in support of the measure. The new rule mandates the Legislature to conduct an...
by Mary-Erin Casale | Jan 23, 2018 | Women's Issues
Speaker of the House Sara Gideon released the following statement in honor of the 45th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: “Today, we remember and reaffirm the guiding principle behind the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision: every woman should be able to make her own...
by Mary-Erin Casale | Jan 17, 2018 | Maine Legislature, Uncategorized, Women's Issues
When Erin Herbig and I were elected to leadership, we committed to working on policies that empower women and working families. So when we found out that the State House lacked a private space for nursing mothers, we were beyond appalled and determined to fix the...
